New York Senator seeking toughest assault weapons ban in nation

7:36 PM,
Jan. 4, 2013

Sen. Jeffrey Klein

Written by

Jessica Bakeman, Albany Bureau

A breakaway group of Senate Democrats vowed Friday to help Gov. Andrew Cuomo pass the "strongest assault-weapons ban in the country."

Sen. Jeffrey Klein, D-Bronx, who heads the five-member Independent Democratic Conference, said after an hour-and-a-half-long meeting with Cuomo at the Capitol that the group supports the governor's legislation "wholeheartedly," and that he hopes it will be passed as soon as possible - preferably this month.

Cuomo has yet to publicly reveal his gun-control bill, but he has said one is expected as part of his State of the State address Wednesday. ...